I guess its marketing.....you can give away MS Works and make it sound like a
bargain
"MS Works ...free...worth $XX"
Depsite the fact we all know its useless. OpenOffice is more difficult:
"OpenOffice..free...worth...oh its free anyway"
On a more cynical note if you give away OpenOffice you will also erode your
customer base who know MS Works is not good enough and are willing to pay
extra for the "upgrade". I don't know the cost structure these days but I
would guess selling a copy of MS Office with a new box significantly improves
the margin on the overall deal for the retailer.
Kevin.
On Monday 29 August 2005 12:08, Paul Jakma wrote:
>On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, conor at discuskeeping.com wrote:
>> Because the OEM market is still all MS-Office on windaz. So it
>> comes "free" with the PC, just like windaz XP does you see.
>>Odd, I've never noticed MS Office advertised as coming "free" with a
>new PC - quite the opposite in fact.
>>You'd wonder why more OEMs, or at least small ones, don't preload OOo
>on PCs which are /not/ sold with the 200 euro+ "MS Office + XXX"
>bundle.. (Least, you'd wonder it in a non-"the monopoly power will
>punish you" kind of world).
>>> Even if it does not come with Office, they "throw in" MS-Works instead.
>>regards,
>--
>Paul Jakma paul at clubi.iepaul at jakma.org Key ID: 64A2FF6A
>Fortune:
>Once, I read that a man be never stronger than when he truly realizes how
>weak he is.
> -- Jim Starlin, "Captain Marvel #31"
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